Political Incoherence

 

"One last thought on what happened. I don't like it, but I believe Frank Luntz and his focus groups are right: while 2024 was a massive repudiation of the full Democrat agenda (2020-2024) , 2026 was an even more massive repudiation of the full Republican agenda (2024-2026).

The fact is, while people who are VERY liberal or VERY conservative may control the party agenda, that is not the majority of the country at all. They are just looking for something they consider "normal" i.e. their version of "moderate" and often that involves accepting a tremendous amount of cognitive dissonance. Additionally, voters often want the benefits of a particular policy without accepting its moral, economic, or practical costs. They may hold socially conservative views on one issue, liberal views on another, and economically contradictory views on a third. This is because, unlike the majority of people reading this, they don't have anything like a consolidated worldview, and a lot of that is due to the fact that churches and families no longer teach a strictly Biblical worldview.

As a result, they want various parts of the two competing agendas in ways that don't make any sense. These are just 25 incompatible factors that polls have documented.

1. They want the border secured, but they don't want public deportations

2. They may complain about illegal immigration and cheap labor but they want illegals available to roof their houses, mow their lawns, clean their hotels, and work on their construction crews for less than Americans.

3. They want high wages and to buy American, but they want to pay Chinese prices.

4. They want government spending dramatically reduced, but they don't want cuts to Social Security, Medicare, veterans' benefits, farm subsidies, or programs their families use, and the majority of Americans receive some sort of government subsidy.

5. They want lower taxes for themselves, higher taxes for those who earn more than they do, and the kind of public services that only a high-tax welfare state can provide.

6. They want the next generation to pay for their retirement, but they don't want to actually raise enough of a next generation to actually do that.

7. They want affordable housing and restrictive zoning.

8. They don't want billionaires, but they do want the kind of technology and innovation that only billionaires can produce.

9. They don't want a biological male competing against their daughter on the high school girls' teams, but they want that same daughter to have access to a publicly funded abortion at any point in the pregnancy if she becomes pregnant.

10. They acknowledge children do best with a married mother and father, but they don't want to get married and fiercely defend the supposed right to get a no-fault divorce whenever they want.

11. They want recreational marijuana legalized, but they don't want their neighborhood smelling of marijuana, their children using it, or intoxicated people operating vehicles and machinery.

12. They are outraged by child pornography, and think pornography is harmful to children, but they want a thriving porn industry, to be able to make porn for OnlyFans without being judged, and as much access to porn as they want.

13. They celebrate sexual autonomy and freedom from traditional expectations, but they lament the instability of marriage, fatherlessness, and the difficulty of finding faithful long-term partners.

14. They believe passionately in free speech when it comes to the ability to spread their own views, but they want employers, universities, and social media companies to punish people whose speech they find offensive.

15. They insist that adults should be free to make unhealthy or dangerous choices, but also expect taxpayers and insurance pools to absorb the resulting costs of their own poor choices.

16. They want AI to drive their cars, write their papers, explain things to them online, and lower the cost of doing business, but they don't want to build the data centers in the US necessary to make that feasible. They'd prefer they were all in China, but they don't want to acknowledge that the CCP would control them.

17. They want abundant, inexpensive electricity and fuel, but resist new power plants, nuclear facilities, transmission lines, refineries, and drilling operations, especially near their communities.

18. They want to be considered spiritual, perhaps even Christian, but they don't want to attend church regularly, submit to church discipline, or have their moral choices challenged by Scripture.

19. They praise the family as the foundation of society, but organize their personal lives around career advancement, consumption, leisure, and individual fulfillment, often at the expense of family relationships.

20. They complain about the harmful effects of social media on their children and want to sue those companies, but stubbornly resist the personal sacrifices involved in limiting their own screen time and overseeing their children's technology use.

21. They say they want politicians to be moral, but excuse personal immorality in political leaders when those leaders advance causes they support.

22. They want a "moral" nation, but do not want the church telling them how to spend their Sundays, conduct their marriages, or raise their children and resent being told that adultery, dishonesty, covetousness, or neglect of worship are sins.

23. They want the world's strongest armed forces, capable of winning wars quickly and decisively, but oppose the taxes and expenditures required to maintain that capability.

24. They want America to exercise decisive influence over world affairs, protect trade routes, and deter hostile powers, but don't want military deployments, "boots on the ground", economic disruptions, foreign aid, or complicated diplomatic entanglements.

25. They want low crime, strict penalties for serious crime, loose morals, low surveillance, low incarceration, and invisible policing."

 

 

 

This

 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfU5HapDEQY/?psln=NnZmcTN4OWN6b3Fr

This is exactly what I’m seeing across social media.   Young women dancing and gleefully celebrating more abortion, and politicians promising witch hunts over legislation.   The next two years are likely to be an orgy of hyper partisan excess with very little governing or attempt to bring unity or consensus.  

In short, it’ll be a nightmare that shows us the danger of these extremists getting power and of vindictiveness instead of governance.  

 https://x.com/nervana_1/status/2117745789116252269?a=UpM2JkAnIs05O8Aqlmw&s=46

It’s Coming

 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfU8DT6PL10/?vrfl=cm00M3VvMTJldTd4

Disappointment

 "Dear GOP,

We’re not voting for you because we trust you. We don’t.

We’re not voting for you because we think you will make it better.

We don’t.

We’re voting against the Democrats. Because although you’re apparently utterly useless at making anything better, they’re absolutely fantastic at making everything worse.

Yours disappointedly,

The American Electorate"



While I think that there have been some good policies that have made certain things better in Trump's first two years of term 2, I'd argue that much of that success has come despite the GOP not because of the GOP.  The GOP has been disappointing of late.  

Thankfully that DFL has been and will continue to be an absolute train wreck.  

" South Carolina flipped to the Democrats because Trump endorsed a Republican candidate who had no qualifications, no experience, no political skills, no resume at all, and whose only pitch to the voters was "I'm the sister of Lindsay Graham." Just a staggeringly idiotic strategy that failed exactly as any reasonable person knew that it would."

Matt Walsh

 

 

Second First

 My first thought about the election last night is how awesome it it to see the second first Native American woman get elected to the senate.  

Seeing the total idiots who've forgotten how they celebrated Fauxahontas for being the first not too long ago, and are now celebrating the second first is hilarious.   

Sauce For The Goose?

 Contemplating having a friend vouch for me so I can vote again…

Kind Of LIke Giving Hitler An Award For Supporting Jews.

 https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/npr-ceo-katherine-maher-harpers-award?r=28q7xt&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

" Rejoice, comrades! On October 26, Harper’s Magazine will bestow NPR CEO Katherine Maher with its First Amendment Award at a ceremony in NYC. Commissar Katherine should repeat her previous statements about the First Amendment during her acceptance speech:

Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that’s getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done…. The number one challenge that we see here is, of course, the First Amendment in the United States. So, you know, in a lot of countries—in Europe, for example—there’s a lot more willingness to pass legislation to restrict certain kinds of content. In the United States, the First Amendment makes it a little bit trickier.

And so what we are looking at is how do we continue to, you know, make sure that we are working with platforms, working with governments, working with civil society to make sure that we are not amplifying bad information, that we are not amplifying the influence peddlers who are trying to, you know, shape narratives in ways that are unhelpful…

We took a very active approach to disinformation and misinformation… The model was around how do we create sort of a clearing house of information that brings the institution of the Wikimedia Foundation with the editing community in order to be able to identify threats early on through conversations with government, of course, as well as other platform operations, to understand sort of what the landscape looks like."

 

Well done. Giving an award celebrating the 1st Amendment to someone who wishes that we could get around it for more censorship seems like a bad idea.   Let alone someone who's getting rich leeching off of taxpayer money.  

Influential/God

 https://open.substack.com/pub/andygbannister/p/jesus-man-myth-prophet-or-more?r=28q7xt&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

 

" It has been remarked that if you were to make two lists: on one, write the ten most influential people in history, on the other, write people who have claimed to be God, only one name would appear on both those lists: Jesus of Nazareth. Indeed, it would be hard to overstate Jesus’s influence: much of art, politics, ethics, literature, music, and culture—in the West but also in large swathes of the East—has been influenced by his life.

And, of course, Jesus is the central figure of Christianity—making Christianity, uniquely, a historically grounded religion. Consider this: you could remove the founder of any other religion from history and that religion could still stand. Somebody else could have taught the system of thought that became Buddhism. The Qur’an could have been brought by somebody other than Muhammad. But Christianity? Well, it isn’t a system of teaching taught by Jesus. No, in a very real sense, Christianity is Jesus Christ. Jesus’s personality, his character, his identity, are the heart of the Christian faith. Christianity stands or falls on Jesus.

Not least, Christianity claims that “God” is not some mere abstract idea, some vague higher power, something “out there” like the Force in Star Wars, or a distant, remote deity, like the God of Islam, but a God who is very, very real. A God who took on human nature and, in Jesus Christ, walked and talked in history.

Now for some that can be quite unnerving. It’s one thing to believe in a distant, remote God, but Christianity says God is much more real than that—closer, more personal. A God who is deeply interested in who we are. A God who loves us too much to abandon us, but also a God who asks much of us.

That cuts so much against the grain of radical individualism that runs through human nature, that our natural temptation can be to try to dismiss Christianity and the only way to do that is to do away with Jesus. Whilst we may not go so far as Jesus’s first-century enemies, who did away with him by crucifying him, we’re still tempted to relativize Jesus, to cut him down to size so that we can ignore him."

 

For the rest, click the link above.   

What Happens Next?

 There's a narrative out there that goes something like this.  "If Trump/The GOP loses the midterms, then Trump will do something to overthrow the results and impose his will on the nation."   

First, we actually have evidence that tells us what Trump as done when he or the GOP has lost elections.

Second, what happens to all of these conspiracy mongers when their dire predictions don't come True?  

 

I do want to note the reality that questioning results that seem to not make sense (votes counted exceed voters eligible to vote or middle of the night ballot dumps that break 100/0 in favor) and investigation those things are not problems or an attempt to overthrow anything.  Given what we've found out about GA election issues, it seems prudent to work for the most secure elections possible.  It seems unlikely that anything will change the tune of these conspiracy mongers, nor will it stop them from claiming fraud of their side loses.  

 

Commands V. Teachings

 There has been a lot of conversation recently about Jesus teachings, and where we find them.  But very little about His commands.   In Stan's post about that Great Commission, He makes the point that Jesus is commanding His disciples to go and male disciples.  As Stan notes, this command is based on Jesus' authority.   Jesus is clear when He says " “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth” (Mat 28:18)", and because of the authority He has been given we are to go and make disciples because He gave the disciples the authority and ability to fulfill His command. 

Two things struck me as I was reading Stan's post.   First was the difference between a teacher and a king.  

Both the king and the teacher have authority.  Yet the authority of the teacher is limited and is temporarily given them by higher authority.  The authority of the teacher is primarily limited to their conduct within the walls of their classroom or perhaps their school.  Within their classroom, they have a great deal of authority delegated to them, outside of their classroom they have less authority, outside of their school they have virtually no authority.  Any authority that do have is only their by virtue of being subject to a principle, school board, union, and the state or federal departments of education.   Further, their authority diminishes outside of the subject matter that they teach.  For example, a gym teacher has very little authority when it comes to teaching biology.  

Contrast this with the authority of a king.  A king is the ultimate authority within their kingdom.   A king answers to no one withing his kingdom.   Historically we do see instances where a kingdom is subject to the authority of an empire, Herod for example, yet within Herod's kingdom he was the authority.  

As an aside, in a world today where kings are mostly ceremonial we probably don't give their authority much thought.    

Now that we've looked at relative authority, how do we respond to what teachers tell us and what kings tell us?

 The short answer is that the teachings of a teacher and the commands of a king are two entirely different things.    It is much easier and less risky to choose to ignore the teachings of a teacher, than the commands of a king.  It's also much easier to pick and choose those who teach you, than those who rule you.  In the Jewish tradition one could choose which rabbi to follow based on what they taught and whether you aligned with their teachings.  Likewise we are free to choose which schools we attend or send our children to or which religious leaders we want to be taught by.  Whether that choice is prompted by style or substance, is immaterial, the choice exists.  It's less easy to choose your king.  

So, what happens in the case of Jesus were the teacher is also The King?   Where The Logos who has existed from before time, and who created all that exists, chooses to step down from His throne and teach His disciples.   How do we separate His teachings from His commandments?  Can His teachings be dismissed or subordinated to the teachings of someone else?  If the Teacher is also the King aren't the consequences for choosing to ignore His teachings more significant?  If the Teacher is also the one who has "All authority in Heaven and one earth" should we not take that into account?  

When this teacher is asked, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” and replies “The most important one, is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”, is His reply a teaching or a commandment?   

Personally, I think that it's easier for us to limit what Jesus said to teachings, because it's easier to ignore or  dismiss teachings, than commandments.  It's easier to see Jesus as a teacher, even The Teacher,  than as The King.   But if Jesus isn't The King, and doesn't have "all authority in Heaven and on earth", then why should we consider His teachings authoritative or worth following?  

What Is A...?

 

"She kept a secret key

for the sacred door

where all the holy stories were held

and the mysteries contained

within that room

no man could ever tell

for these were secrets

known only to women

they learned it was safer that way

they were stories of pain

and stories of resistance

and a soon-coming better day."

 

If it is impossible to define the terms "She" and "woman", this literally has no meaning at all.   

Embrace Grace, Not!

 Hayley Stevens, a far left democrat, finally decided that she could not support or endorse El Sayed for Michigan's senate seat and has chosen to support the GOP candidate instead.  

 Unsurprisingly, the DFL has showered her with love, grace, support and encouragement for taking this brave and principled stand.  

Given how Dan and his ilk operate, we know how likely that is.   

Eugenics?

 https://tiredmoderate.substack.com/p/this-cant-keep-going?r=28q7xt&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

 

 "What we’re witnessing in the US is the thrashings of miserable nihilistic leftists who are actively removing themselves from the future of humanity. It’s actually astonishing to watch; like a group of people watched 20th-century Eugenicist movements play out and thought, “what if we did that to ourselves?” So in a sense the problem is solving itself, the rest of us just have to hold the line until it plays out. How?"

 

I've said something like this for a while when it comes to abortion.   (I feel like I just say an Arynne Wexler clip making this point as well) But it's good to see someone expand on it.   

When?

 Every time I open Blogger, I am faced with 7 comments from Dan which date back to Oct 1.   They're there because Dan refuses to do as he's been asked.  I've been extending Dan the grace of not simply aborting his comments, while he's chosen not to embrace the grace he prates on about.  

So, at what point do I simply abort all 7 of Dan's comments and assume that he has no interest in civil exchange?   

"No Good"

 "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. As that unhappy poet A. E. Housman put it:
For Nature, heartless, witless Nature
Will neither know nor care.
DNA neither knows nor cares. DNA just is. And we dance to its music."

Dawkins literally wrote the book which underpins most, if not all, of modern Darwinist/Materialist/Naturalist/Atheist thought.    

FAFA

Last week a video was going around of a young woman engaged with a TPUSA speaker, which ended in her reciting a poem celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk.  The TPUSA host was respectful and polite as the young woman ran away gleefully.   The young woman got her 15 minutes of internet fame, and it wasn't what he thought it would be.  In short, she FA'd and FO.   Things went badly once she was identified and negative consequences followed.   It's easy to be edgy and fringe when your university ecosystem of leftists makes you feel safe.  Unfortunately, the broader world sometimes isn't the liberal cocoon of a university campus.  

 

 https://x.com/lagsignal/status/2116728763182445011?s=51

 " Issa Kassahuga's apology video is the perfect autopsy of one of the most sickening phenomena in contemporary culture: the dehumanization of the political opponent fueled on university campuses and the immediate panic when the reality of the adult world demands payment. To understand the weight of this statement, one must look at what happened before the recording. On September 23, at an event on the University of Texas at San Antonio campus, the student took the microphone in front of conservative activist Christian Collins to publicly mock and gloat over the unimaginable loss and pain of widow Erika Kirk and her orphaned children. In that moment, buoyed by the easy applause of the university bubble and the arrogance of someone who believes themselves morally superior, she thought that mocking an adversary's death was a demonstration of political virtue. What changed between that September day and this formal apology recorded with a measured voice and downcast eyes? What changed was the relentless arrival of reality. The video of the aggression went viral on social media, public opinion revolted against the cowardice, the university board opened disciplinary investigations, and future employers saw the student's name associated with the mockery of a grieving family. The doors of the job market and civil life began to close at record speed. Suddenly, the ruthless militant who gloated over widows and orphans discovers "humility," appeals to "Christian faith," recalls "human dignity," and publicly begs for a "second chance at life." The apology text was meticulously crafted by lawyers and crisis management advisors. Every word about compassion and respect sounds like a memorized script to contain legal damages and try to save a career destroyed before it even began. In the spiritual realm, forgiveness is a commandment, and it falls to the offended family to grant it if they deem it sincere. But in the social and institutional realm, the lesson must be harsh and permanent. For years, academic indoctrination taught an entire generation that political violence and mockery of others' deaths were legitimate, as long as the target was a conservative. Young people were raised in the dangerous fantasy that militancy guarantees total immunity against the laws of decency and human empathy. The San Antonio case is a lesson for all of Western youth: you can curse and celebrate tragedies inside the university greenhouse. But when you step onto the asphalt of real life, the bill for your lack of character always arrives, and it doesn't accept payment in rehearsed apologies. "It's so easy to gloat over a widow's pain when your classmates are applauding. The desperation of humility only shows up when the reputation bill knocks on the door of the real world." -Mooska"

Zombie Apocalypse

 https://x.com/devon_eriksen_/status/2116992734804193303?s=51

" Working at Oculus would have been an utter waste of my time except for one thing. While I was there, I realized what's wrong with leftists. Not that they have been programmed, that's obvious. Not why they have been programmed. For power, that's obvious, too. But how they have been programmed. The exact method that their moral compass has been destroyed works like this: Target a bunch of people with very few deeds and accomplishments, such as young people or incompetent people, or incompetent young people. Create for them an environment where they are rewarded with moral approval, not for what they do, but for believing certain ideas. The ideas don't have to be outrageous, or absurd, or have anything to do with what you actually need them to believe. In fact, it's better to start with something innocuous. Why? Because the goal isn't to install those beliefs at all. The goal is to repeat this process until you create a person who measures his moral worth by what he believes, not what he does. Keep at this until you have created a mass of people who not only reward themselves with a feeling of moral superiority for believing the right things, but who will reward each other for believing orthodox things, and who will compete with each other, not to do the most good, but to have the most orthodox beliefs. Now, change one of the propositions you have programmed them with to a slightly more radical version of itself, and hold this up as a more correct version of the old belief, which has been newly discovered by scholarly investigations into culture and moral philosophy. Sit back, watch, and give them a few weeks to compete with each other to adopt the new belief, and to condemn the "evil" of anyone who believes the old belief, the very thing they believed last month. Repeat this process until they are used to rapidly changing their entire belief system in response to an external cue. Congratulations, you have a population of entirely programmable people whose moral compass is not just broken, but entirely non-existent. They don't care what any person in front of them actually does. Only that he believe the orthodox thing, which they just learned about in last week's memo. They are willing to do anything, so long as it is done in support of their current belief system, which can be replaced whenever it's convenient to do so. They are willing to burn down an entire city with no qualms whatsoever if they are doing it in support of the idea that black lives matter. They are willing to murder a man in front of his children, and it doesn't matter if his actions were entirely peaceful and good, because all that matters to them is whether he believes the correct things or not. And a man who builds cheap spaceflight for the human race, develops viable electric cars to save the environment, restores voices to the voiceless, and plans, for his next trick, to heal the blind... well, all those are deeds, so none of them matter. The only thing that matters is that he told people to vote republican once, which is wrongthink. So what you have a horde of communist zombies, who can be steered to shuffle in any direction and attack the living, eat their brains, and turn them into more zombies. Once someone becomes one of the zombies, you can't cure him, because a moral compass can only be repaired by understanding the consequences of actions in a new way... and they don't care about actions or consequences. They only care about beliefs, and not about consequences at all. Their moral compasses aren't just broken. They are absent. There's nothing to repair. "

BOT

 https://www.facebook.com/reel/2102160960441839

It's old, but DFL officials lying stupidly never really gets old.  

 https://x.com/eyakoby/status/2114840074190045551?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

More riots.  

 https://www.instagram.com/reels/DfLITCyksGs/

Selective empathy, Suicidal empathy, or Toxic empathy, all end in the same place.   

 

No Kings. Really, There Are No Kings.

 https://x.com/therabbith0lz/status/2116099194142249143?s=51

" No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism. You're standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like. Bro. You're holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai. You live in a constitutional republic. Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested. The modern left's definition of fascism: You love your country? Fascist. You want to enforce the border? Racist. You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot. You want to know who's voting in your elections? Jim Crow. Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left. But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That's the definition of a country. But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them. Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected. Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin. Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao. Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon. Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII. Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini. Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler's entire reign. Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote. But Trump is the king. Okay buddy. You don't hate kings. You hate kings that aren't yours. And they have you in the streets carrying their water. The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned. No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968. Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote. During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant. But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you're a citizen before you vote? That's oppression. The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration. Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check. That's how you keep power without wearing a crown. Biden built a censorship machine. Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove "humor and satire." They literally went after people for making fun of them. UK does it better tho... Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley. And it doesn't stop at speech. The extreme left justifies taking children from families. Six thousand schools rewrite children's identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene. The Hitler Youth did this. Mao's Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father. Same playbook. During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn't hold your dying mother's hand at the hospital. But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously. $2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings. January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings. Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided. Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated. CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up. 75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable. Liberals who went to Trump rallies: "I never felt unsafe." "The experience changed me." They say. Conservatives who show up on liberal campuses get screamed at, blocked, and assassinated. One side talks. The other side screams. The Party for Socialism and Liberation marched Their stated purpose in their own words: "Revolution." Not reform. But Marxism. 500 groups. $3 billion in revenue. Pre-printed signs. The signs were ready before you were even angry. AND its all coming again .... if the left gain any power."

 

 

BOT

 https://www.instagram.com/reels/DdPbduioEp7/

Dan won't let go of this nonsense, even when other progressives do.  

https://x.com/eyakoby/status/2114840074190045551?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 More riots

 https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd_8cooEWyk/?img_index=2&srtk=MW52M3hnOGw0ZzRvbw%3D%3D

 Which is why the DFL is embracing the DSA.  

 https://x.com/MichaelARothman/status/2112008536335204380?fbclid=IwY2xjawVQR29leHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBWJyaWQRMUtmM3ZKclhJYXJETnN0TlBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEfemvQI8jx5FP3N9mrGaIAxZPde8JZYlNk-FTysKx4GipxWJ

" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went on 𝘔𝘚 𝘕𝘖𝘞 this week to talk about Democrats and working people. Instead she handed Republicans the quote of the cycle. “𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘦𝘶𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴.” That's Ocasio-Cortez, 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝, admitting the term her own party has used for a decade wasn't about paychecks at all. Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren didn't let it sit. Responding to the same clip, she laid out the contrast in one breath: “𝘏𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴, 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳. 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸. 𝘉𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘳, 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘥.” This isn't a slip of the tongue. It's the quiet part of identity politics said out loud: when the left says “𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬,” they've long meant a demographic checklist, not a tax bracket. Meanwhile the guy they love to call a threat to working people is the one polling strongest with the union hall, the farm, and the factory floor he actually shows up to (𝐅𝐨𝐱 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬, 𝐌𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐖). 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭." 

 https://x.com/floppingaces/status/2110436315271757981?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "Congratulations to NBC’s Kristen Welker, who has apparently pioneered a revolutionary new form of journalism: interviewing a Senate candidate while demonstrating absolutely no fucking interest in what his answers mean. Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed was asked whether he or his family had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. He said no. Twice. Wonderful! Case closed! Somebody get this woman a Pulitzer. Except El-Sayed’s own half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, had publicly written, “My family has long been MB,” described their mother’s Muslim Brotherhood activism in Egypt, and discussed relatives imprisoned for belonging to the organization. You’d think that might inspire a question. Perhaps even two, if NBC’s investigative journalism department could survive the exertion. Instead, Welker allowed El-Sayed to accuse Republican Mike Rogers of attacking his Muslim faith and launch into a 479-word campaign speech lasting more than two and a half minutes. Four hundred seventy-nine words. Jesus Christ. At that point, why bother having an interviewer? Just hand the candidate a microphone, dim the lights, and let his campaign manager yell cut when the commercial ends. And remember, this is the same Welker who can interrupt Donald Trump like a malfunctioning smoke detector when the subject turns to authoritarianism. Apparently, her journalistic instincts come with a party affiliation and an extremely convenient on-off switch. The truly humiliating part is how little effort actual journalism would have required. Read the sister’s statements. Ask El-Sayed to explain them. Wait for an answer. Four simple steps, apparently beyond the operational capabilities of NBC News. What a magnificent fucking embarrassment for a network that still expects Americans to take its political coverage seriously. NBC should save itself the trouble of pretending these are interviews. Replace Welker’s desk with a campaign-approved suggestion box. At least then viewers would know exactly who's writing the fucking questions."

 https://x.com/thomassowell/status/2110563390448095379?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/eyakoby/status/2110109503320412387?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

How is it possible that Piker is given such credibility and visibility by the DFL? 

 https://x.com/ap/status/2093742916581707934?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 Yet is still happens, and the DFL doesn't seem inclined to stop it. 

 https://x.com/jeremymunson/status/2110421527585784293?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "PROVEN fraud differs from SUSPECTED fraud. Proven fraud is what you see in courtrooms: Feeding Our Future, $250 million stolen while the state looked the other way. Convictions. Prison sentences. Suspected fraud is worse — because the Democrats running Minnesota can't prove your tax dollars went to legitimate people in the first place. Case in point: in February, the Trump administration froze $259 million in Minnesota Medicaid funds. CMS Director Dr. Oz offered a simple deal — prove the claims are legitimate and you get the money back. Eight months later, Minnesota still can't prove it. Now the state's own top Medicaid official admits the money may be gone for good. Total frozen: $550 million. If those claims were legitimate, they'd have produced the paperwork by now. They can't — because the records don't exist. This sloppy ignorance of fraud has been going on since at least 2014. 12 years times 550 million....well...you get the point. THIS is why we believe more than $9 billion of your money has been stolen. And tomorrow is property tax day in Minnesota. When you write that check, remember: when billions vanish into fraud, somebody always pays. When the State and your County aren't being reimbursed because Democrats were caught running the largest fraud scheme in US history, the people who pay are the taxpayers like you. 20 days until Election Day."

 https://x.com/brivael/status/2110680356034576438?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "Bernie Sanders says the top 1% owns more than the bottom 93%, that fewer than a thousand billionaires got $2.2 trillion richer last year, and that it's "obscene." It's the most seductive and most wrong economic argument of our time. Let me explain why. First, wealth distribution follows a power law. Always. Everywhere. Books, music, startups, followers on X, goals in soccer. A small minority captures most of the value. That's not a bug of capitalism. It's the mathematical signature of every system where value gets created. So the only question that matters isn't "how big is the rich's slice?" It's "is the cake growing, and is the slice of the poorest growing with it?" And the answer is yes. In 1990, more than one human in three lived in extreme poverty. Today it's about one in ten. During exactly the period when billionaires multiplied. Bernie shows you the slice. He never shows you the cake. Second thing he won't tell you: past a certain level, wealth stops being consumption. It becomes capital allocation. Elon Musk isn't sleeping on a pile of cash. He owns stakes in Tesla, SpaceX, xAI. Jeff Bezos owns Amazon stock. That "$2.2 trillion" isn't sitting in a checking account. It's factories, rockets, data centers, millions of jobs. Nobody can eat $100 billion. You can only decide where to invest it. Once you understand that, the whole debate changes. The real question becomes: who allocates capital better? The people who built Amazon, SpaceX and Nvidia? Or politicians? A 5% wealth tax isn't "taking money from the rich." It's taking investment decisions away from people who proved they can create value and handing them to people who proved the opposite. Because the fundamental difference between an entrepreneur and a politician is consequences. The entrepreneur invests his own money. If he allocates badly, he loses everything. The market corrects him brutally, no appeal. That's why most startups die: the system kills bad decisions. The politician invests other people's money. If he allocates badly, nothing happens. Worse, he gets a bigger budget to "fix the problem." Milton Friedman put it better than anyone. There are four ways to spend money. Your money on yourself: you care about price and quality. Your money on others: you care about price. Others' money on yourself: you care about quality. Others' money on others: you care about nothing. Government is the fourth box. By design. Perfect example: California high-speed rail. Approved in 2008 for about $33 billion. Current estimated cost: over $100 billion. Passengers carried: zero. No entrepreneur would have survived that. The politicians who pushed it built careers on it. And when allocation has no consequences, it eventually finds a buyer. A politician who controls billions without accountability becomes the most profitable target in the world for anyone who wants to steer that money. The irony is that the left that rails against billionaires is itself funded by billionaires. George Soros is one of the biggest Democratic donors in history. The Gates Foundation shapes public health policy across the planet. Politicians don't fight billionaires. They pick their own. The ones who fund the state over the ones who compete with it. So if we actually want fewer poor people, we have to stop judging ideas by their intentions and start judging them by their results. And the results are brutally clear. China, 1978: Deng Xiaoping opens the economy to markets. More than 800 million people escape extreme poverty. The largest retreat of misery in human history. Not through redistribution. Through the freedom to build. India, 1991: liberalization. Same movie. South Korea and North Korea: same people, same language, same starting point in 1953. One became one of the most advanced economies on earth. The other has famines. Poland and Ukraine: comparable living standards in 1990. Today the average Pole is more than three times richer than the average Ukrainian. Argentina: a year and a half of liberalization, and the poverty rate falls from over 50% to around 30%. No country in history escaped poverty by punishing the people who build. Every single one did it by letting them build. And if you want to see what Bernie's program looks like in real life, you don't have to imagine it. It exists. It's called France. We've been running it for 45 years. Mass nationalizations in 1981. Two years later, Socialist president Mitterrand has to reverse course into austerity. Retirement at 60. The 35-hour workweek. A wealth tax for 35 years. Hundreds of wealthy households left every year for Belgium, Switzerland, London, taking their capital, their companies and their future taxes with them. Macron finally scrapped it in 2018. Hollande's 75% tax: raised a few hundred million, drove talent out, abandoned after two years. One of the highest tax burdens in the OECD. Public spending around 57% of GDP, a record in the developed world. Last balanced budget: 1974. Public debt: over €3.4 trillion. Mass unemployment for four decades. If taxing the rich and growing the state made people prosperous, France would be the richest country on the planet. It isn't. GDP per capita in France is barely more than half of America's. It's lower than Mississippi, the poorest state in the US. Not a single global tech giant. Our best engineers build Silicon Valley instead. I've been going back and forth between Paris and San Francisco for years. I see it every week. And California is about to replay the movie. Prop 40, on the ballot November 3rd, would take 5% of billionaires' net worth. Even Gavin Newsom, a Democratic governor, opposes it. The state's own nonpartisan budget analyst warns that income tax revenue could drop every year if the wealthy leave. Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Peter Thiel have reportedly already started moving their assets out. You don't fight poverty by shrinking the top. You fight it by growing the cake. Bernie wants a society where nobody has too much. I want a society where nobody has too little. The first has been tried everywhere and produces equality in stagnation. The second lifted a billion people out of misery. Choose."

 https://x.com/wil_da_beast630/status/2110196706725744680?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/christopherrufo/status/2110391764100239591?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/realmaalouf/status/2110399301025177874?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Church and state, bad. Mosque and state, good. 

 https://x.com/peggyflanagan/status/2110153329632272644?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Much like Dan, she makes a claim but can't prove the claim.  

 https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/2110396421199245611?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "Outrage is erupting in Baltimore after a mother was CHARGED in the DE*TH of her own 2-month-old baby, who was STARVED, BEATEN, DEHYDRATED, and had BLEEDING IN HIS BRAIN... ...and she was LET OUT ON BOND in just 3 DAYS!!! His name was Malik Woodard, he lived 83 days. Medical records show that in those 83 days, he gained just 50 GRAMS. That’s less than TWO OUNCES, for his whole life. On August 31st, 2025, around 11:30 in the morning, police were called to Loch Raven Boulevard and Gorsuch Avenue for a baby who wasn’t breathing. Firefighters did CPR. He didn't survive. According to charging documents, his great-grandmother heard him crying abnormally and struggling to breathe. She went to his mother. His mother ordered her grandmother to LEAVE THE ROOM. That mother is Taylor Williams. She’s 20 years old. Williams told investigators she stepped into the bathroom and came back to find her son unresponsive. Then the medical examiner ruled: -> Head trauma that caused BLEEDING IN HIS BRAIN. -> Severe dehydration. -> Malnutrition. That ruling didn’t reach detectives until June of this year... nearly TEN MONTHS later. She wasn’t arrested until October 5th... more than a YEAR afterwards BUT IT GETS WORSE. She was charged with first-degree child abuse resulting in de@th. In Maryland, that carries up to LIFE in prison, but guess what? Three days later, on Thursday, October 8th, she posted bond and she WENT HOME. Say his name. Malik Woodard."

 

 

 

 

 

 

Confusion

 "Again, HOW GULLIBLE and easily manipulated ARE you? I mean, Marshal and Glenn, I get. But you, Craig, seem not as dim-witted as they present. WHY would you believe some unsubstantiated little nothing you read from an anonymous source? YOU HAD JOURNALISM SCHOOL. You should not be this stupid, son."

 

In one of Dan's comments held in moderation (because Dan is too stubborn, stupid, or prideful) to do what he was asked so that I can answer a question he claims I haven't answered.  

Nonetheless, Dan is confused here.  He seems to think that when I post something here that I am posting that thing as if it was a MSM news source.  I post things that I find interesting, that is the only criteria.   

Dan is further confused because he seems to think that the medium where the story appears somehow magically confirms the veracity of the story.   Dan seems to think that when Lou Raguse (investigative reported for KARE 11, the local NBC affiliate) posts one of his stories on IG or X, that that post magically ceases to become news.  Likewise, when a MSM outlet posts through their official social media account, that story is still a journalism.    Part of what I learned when I graduated with a 4 year degree in journalism, was the difference between journalism and not journalism.  I further learned that the medium does not invalidate the story and that journalism can be practiced by anyone with the ability to accurately report the facts of a story.  

Dan seems unable to distinguish the difference between a news story and an opinion piece.   

BOT

 https://www.instagram.com/reels/Dd_4_EIT5i_/

IVMLTT

 https://x.com/dapper_det/status/2113381591515083106?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Diversity and sanctuary are great, except for the victims.

 https://www.instagram.com/reels/DexCcoixoQ-/

 https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/2113380034354290903?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "It has been revealed that the man who has been drawing Swastikas all over Fayetteville NC... ...is actually a BLACK MALE, "Taquon Vereen" who was given bail but he NEVER SHOWED UP TO COURT THIS WEEK SHOCKER!!!! ...now the judge has issued an arrest warrant and they CAN'T FIND HIM Curiously, although local media reported on the story, they miraculously failed to mention, AT ALL, the race of man who was drawing these swastikas."

 https://x.com/parkerthayer/status/2113330636757078253?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

It's not just MN. 

 https://x.com/drewpavlou/status/2112790464801960178?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "Horrific news: Australian MP Helen Haines will never walk again as a result of Monday’s far-left terror attack. Doctors had to amputate both her legs. Her attacker was radicalised on the fringes of the Palestine movement in Australia. He supported the Houthis and expressed support for Hamas. The anti-Israel movement in Australia has so much blood on its hands. 15 dead at Bondi and now an Australian MP forced to amputate both legs. Out of control. The anti-Zionists are literally a biblical plague on any nation that allows their movement to fester."

https://x.com/libertyusa37/status/2113281328883834907?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "They laugh about giving your $18 billion surplus to friends and fraudsters. Then they pretend they care about the working class. Sickening."

 

Omar Information

 https://x.com/realdsteinberg/status/2112883665554288651?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" 

Below, please find the list of links to the 25 investigative articles written by Scott Johnson, Preya Samsundar, and myself from 2016 to 2020.

In the July 18, 2019 article linked below, I asserted:

“[T]he three years of verified evidence published by Scott Johnson, Preya Samsundar, and myself (…) appear to give probable cause to investigate Omar for eight instances of perjury, immigration fraud, marriage fraud, up to eight years of state and federal tax fraud, two years of federal student loan fraud, and even bigamy. To be clear: The facts describe perhaps the most extensive spree of illegal misconduct committed by a House member in American history.”

At the time, Ilhan Omar’s potential involvement in the $240M Feeding Our Future fraud (which resulted in

the 2025 conviction of her close relative/campaign worker

, and

U.S. taxpayer money being sent to Al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia

) had not yet occurred.

Also, her

$30 million “accounting error”

had not yet occurred.

Reports of her campaign’s links to the Cedar Riverside neighborhood’s “open secret” of widespread vote-buying among Somalis (linked below) were still few.

And the assertion did not include my January 24, 2019 article (linked below) on the remarkable national security risk of her sister Sahra Noor’s husband.

If you are an American voter: Before voting, please make the time to read the 25 articles below in chronological order. I believe you will find it to have been a worthwhile decision.

I expect you will find the following conclusion to be unavoidable: For a decade, each Democratic Party figure and media figure who denigrated these articles lied to you.

Either they lied about the quality and scale of evidence, or they lied about having performed due diligence, choosing to cause national division without knowing if they were the bad guys.

By October 2020, perhaps a hundred items of evidence with only one rational reason to exist were already public. As of October 2026, zero pieces of public evidence support Omar’s side of the story.

The chances that we are yet to learn each piece of evidence has an innocent, bad-luck explanation are infinitesimal. We are beyond reasonable doubt.

(Many of the below links are Internet Archive pages, allowing you to properly view each article as originally published. Site redesigns commonly cause loading issues for older articles with embedded images. This list links a correctly loading Internet Archive page for each original article link which is not currently functional.)

1. 2016-08-12 · Scott Johnson · Power Line — Ilhan Omar: Her Back Pages
2. 2016-08-17 · Preya Samsundar · Alpha News — Evidence Confirms Rumors of Candidate's Marriages
3. 2016-08-18 · Scott Johnson · Power Line — A Few Questions for Ilhan Omar
4. 2016-08-22 · Preya Samsundar · Alpha News — Investigation Suggests Omar Married Brother
5. 2016-08-26 · Preya Samsundar · Alpha News — The Brother Ilhan Omar Legally Married Sends Alpha News an Email
6. 2016-09-02 · Preya Samsundar · Alpha News — A Community Forced Into Silence
7. 2016-09-09 · Scott Johnson · City Journal — The Curious Case of Ilhan Omar
8. 2016-10-27 · Preya Samsundar · Alpha News — City Pages Expose: Omar Family Secrets
9. 2018-08-08 · David Steinberg · PJ Media — State Rep. Ilhan Omar Swore to Apparent Falsehoods in Court While Divorcing Her Alleged Brother
10. 2018-08-12 · David Steinberg · PJ Media — Rep. Ilhan Omar Perjury Evidence Blacked Out by Minnesota Media
11. 2018-10-23 · David Steinberg · PJ Media — Official School Records Support Claims That Rep. Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother
12. 2018-10-23 · Scott Johnson · Power Line — Ilhan Omar's Disgusting Lies
13. 2018-10-30 · David Steinberg · PJ Media — Address Records Show Rep. Ilhan Omar Still Lived With Her First Husband Throughout Her Second Marriage
14. 2018-10-30 · Scott Johnson · Power Line — Ilhan Omar: The Family That Stays Together
15. 2018-11-05 · David Steinberg · PJ Media — New Photos Corroborate Perjury Claims Against Rep. Ilhan Omar as She Deletes Social Media Evidence
16. 2018-11-08 · David Steinberg · PJ Media — 105 Articles Cover Ilhan Omar's Win; Zero Cover Her Anti-Semitism, Finance Investigations, or Perjury Evidence
17. 2019-01-24 · David Steinberg · PJ Media — Ilhan Omar Endorsed Somalia's New President; Four Days Later, Omar's Brother-in-Law Had a Powerful Job in His Administration
18. 2019-07-18 · David Steinberg · Power Line (KEY ARTICLE) — Tying Up Loose Threads in the Curious Case
19. 2019-07-18 · David Steinberg · PJ Media — Ilhan Omar Happened Because Media Chose to Lie to You
20. 2019-09-18 · David Steinberg · PJ Media — Ilhan Omar's Husband No Longer Works for Minneapolis Councilwoman; Sources Say Omar Asked for Him to Be Fired
21. 2020-01-16 · David Steinberg · The Blaze — Finally. The Feds — Including ICE — Appear to Be Investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar
22. 2020-04-22 · David Steinberg · The Blaze — 2018 Ilhan Omar Documentary Prints Her Father's Name as 'Nur Said' — Three Times
23. 2020-05-19 · David Steinberg · The Blaze — Minnesota Imam: Ilhan Omar Fraudulently Raised Cash
24. 2020-08-10 · David Steinberg · The Blaze — Ilhan Omar Must Resign: New Evidence From Nearly Three Dozen Somalis Reveals a Probable Spree of Felonies
25. 2020-10-15 · David Steinberg · The Blaze — Exclusive: Minnesota Democratic Candidate Alleges Outright Vote Buying by Minnesota Democrats: 'Worse Than Somalia', 'The Truth Will Come Out’"